Totally agree. Our pack has look light. I’d drop Maher for Matagi.

I agree with swap of Matagi for Maher - just don't know what King has to do to get a game. Also whilst I haven't been as against DR as some, in the right circumstances, this seems as though its almost being used as punishment by Cas for playing crap the week before - we'll know on Monday how players concerned react to that. Obviously don't know how fit Maizen is but with 3 other centres available would probably prefer not risking him, especially on that pitch.

There’s already a provision for us to pick a team from our armchairs and it’s called fantasy league so from the options available I’ll leave it to the guy who’s not sitting on his butt for the real thing.

Based on the 21 man squad released here’s my 1-17 and my reasons why

1 Woodburn hall
2 Saltonstall
3 fonau
4 maizen
5 walmsey
6 jouffret
7 Keyes
8 Murray
9 Moore
10 doro
11 Kavanagh
12 gee
13 tangata
14 inman
15 fairbank
16 Maher
17 matagi

McComb had a poor game against London and isn’t big enough to play centre and his distribution is average, is best position is wing and salty and walmsey are the form wingers , fonau will provide the size and punch we’ve been lacking in the centre.

I would start doro and the prop interchange would balance graft and punch , with doro and matagi providing the punch and Maher and Murray the graft.

Tangata has been inform and fairbank offers some ball handling skills from the bench when needed .

Our kicking game has been average so that’s why I choose inman over wood , he also provides a lot more defensively .

Willing to give Maher another opportunity although his performances have been underwhelming.

Agree about Maher so far him or Will Calcott for another shot at it and with most of that.
Not too fussed over who gets picked as SG will have the best 17 based on who he thinks can get the job done.
If Fonua does get a run out it will show wether a bigger centre can make the impact we think / hope it could.
Likewise with Matagi to see if he can improve us.
Just also add that Kav has been a stand out in the second row with Gee being a bit under par for him and the one under most pressure to keep his shirt before King gets included.

Agree about Maher. I would prefer Calcott oover Maher on his showing last week. We miss Worthington, he defended really well and could put a winger away. Big centres are in short supply, especially ones that can run!
Gee has worked hard but has not had much impact in attack. Let us hope that our halves and Woody have a good game and can perhaps put Fonau into some half gaps, if he plays.
Kav is my player of the season and we only three games in.

Maher looks to be blowing a bit in the games so far even without the big minutes and Calcott is solid and reliable.
I know Matty Gee is not exactly happy with his own game at the moment (as aren't some of the others) including his goal line defence especially against Sheffield and you can see him muttering to himself behind the sticks after a bit of a turn style effort.

As to the rest of the comb's just have to see who SG goes with in what will be a tricky game but he won't be risking anyone who's not 100% fit, quite rightly.

That was an embarrassment- really wise move subscribing to Viaplay yesterday. Certainly didn't help losing Keyes, but in fairness we were clueless before he went off. No point slagging off individual players as nearly all of them managed to have their worst game on the same day. One honourable exception I thought Calcott ran his blood to water and tackled everything that moved.

Awful. Keys going off didn’t help but wasn’t the problem. Our pack is too small. We
Just don’t have the grunt, firepower or what every you call it, we haven’t got it in the pack. Not looking forward to Sunday against Batley. With our being Negative I can see this happening a few times this season unless the whole squad buck up their play

I actually don’t think it’s the pack that’s the problem, it’s the centres , they’re great going forward but aren’t physical enough defensively. We haven’t replaced worthington and Arundel who were bigger and better in the defensive aspects of the game.